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View SchemaMulti-Agent Cooperative Learning for Robust Vision-Language Alignment under OOD Concepts
| Authors | Philip Xu, Isabel Wagner, Eerke Boiten |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.09746vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09746 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Abstract
This paper introduces a novel Multi-Agent Cooperative Learning (MACL) framework to address cross-modal alignment collapse in vision-language models when handling out-of-distribution (OOD) concepts. Four core agents, including image, text, name, and coordination agents, collaboratively mitigate modality imbalance through structured message passing. The proposed framework enables multi-agent feature space name learning, incorporates a context exchange enhanced few-shot learning algorithm, and adopts an adaptive dynamic balancing mechanism to regulate inter-agent contributions. Experiments on the VISTA-Beyond dataset demonstrate that MACL significantly improves performance in both few-shot and zero-shot settings, achieving 1-5% precision gains across diverse visual domains.
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